Cony.
TELEGRAM REC-IVED.
From: Secretary of Stete.
To: Governor, Hong Kong. (No. 861).
Dated: 12.9.46.
Recd: 13.9.46.
Enclosure No(2
NO (2)
G.T.C.
Your telegram N.932. Small craft.
Admiralty are not prepared to undertake the financial responsibility for the storage of small craft in Australia pening the shipment to Hong Kong. ·
2. I understand that Admiralty message No.0520 of the 10th of April quoted in para.3 of vour telegram No. 723 refers to Royal Navy require e 5s only.
3.
Admiralty signals, referring to small craft for civilian use, are V.A. (C) No. 0806 of the 21st March and the Commodore Hong Kong's No. 221130 Z of March. The 1st of these signals rave details as to the cost of maintaining 69 small craft at Svanev, and asked for authority, to be obtained, to proceed on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong. Paragraph 4 of the second read as follows:-
" Colonial Government requests that arra genents be made for the maintenance as in your o.0806 of the 21st of March".
4. Under these circumstances it ñoes not appear that one Admiralty can be weld liable for these expenses.
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